# A Lost Cause

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{{Short description|Painting by Andrew Carrick Gow}}
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| year= 1888
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'''''A Lost Cause: Flight of King James II after the Battle of the Boyne''''' is an 1888 [history painting](/source/history_painting) by the English [artist](/source/artist) [Andrew Carrick Gow](/source/Andrew_Carrick_Gow).<ref>Wright, Gordon & Smith p.372</ref><ref>Harrington p.327</ref> It depicts a scene from 1690 during the [Williamite War in Ireland](/source/Williamite_War_in_Ireland) when [James II](/source/James_II_of_Ireland) sailed for [France](/source/Kingdom_of_France) from the port of [Kinsale](/source/Kinsale) following his [Irish Army](/source/Irish_Army_(Kingdom_of_Ireland))'s defeat at the [Battle of the Boyne](/source/Battle_of_the_Boyne) in 1690. After his departure his [Jacobite](/source/Jacobitism) supporters continued to fight on – notably at the [Battle of Aughrim](/source/Battle_of_Aughrim) – before [surrendering at Limerick](/source/Treaty_of_Limerick) in 1691.

It was displayed at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy)'s [Summer Exhibition](/source/Summer_Exhibition) of 1888.<ref>''Royal Academy Pictures: Illustrating the Exhibition of the Royal Academy : Being the Royal Academy Supplement of "The Magazine of Art''. Cassell and Company, 1888. p.29</ref>
Today it is in the collection of the [Tate Britain](/source/Tate_Britain) in [London](/source/London), having been acquired in 1894.<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gow-a-lost-cause-flight-of-king-james-ii-after-the-battle-of-the-boyne-n01530</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Harrington, Peter. ''British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914''. Greenhill Books, 1993.
* Millar, Stephen. ''Lust, Lies and Monarchy: The Secrets Behind Britain's Royal Portraits''. Museyonm 2020.
* Wright, Christopher, Gordon, Catherine May & Smith, Mary Peskett. ''British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland''.

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Category:Glorious Revolution in art
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